Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak's (PBDS) former executive secretary Susan Ngau who was reported to have been sacked o­n 24 hours for releasing party files without authority to certain individuals, today claimed that she had "resigned voluntarily".

Ms Ngau, a lawyer by training, told malaysiakini that before Chinese New Year she wrote the party's secretary-general Stanley Ajang that she wanted to leave "before the coming triennial delegates conference (TDC)".

She said she received a letter signed by Ajang, who is also the state assemblyperson for Belaga, o­n March 3, 2003 accepting her letter of resignation.